Jerry Garcia Quotes

The establishment of a National Methamphetamine Prevention Week will significantly increase awareness of meth and educate the public on effective ways to help prevent its use.

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

Well, I’ll never have to talk about crap like dope addiction again.

… satanic music is driven by marijuana, and marijuana smoking by white women makes them want to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and others. It is a drug that causes insanity, criminality, and death — the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.

The war on drugs is very, very real, and the war on helping people with mental illness is very, very real.

I think drugs and alcohol aren't a wrestling problem, it's a life problem, it's a people problem.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.

No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?

The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.

Addicts are hard workers.

LSU has a strong drug testing program and LSU went to great lengths to help me in my treatment and recovery.

Addiction is not a curable condition.

If you love someone who's an addict and their use is life-threatening, you don't wait until they hit bottom because that can mean that they're going to die. You have to do everything you can to get them in treatment.

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

Drugs have ruined Punjab.

An intervention is much more than telling someone they have a problem in a unified fashion; treatment options should be in place.

Too many people are suffering from severe behavioral health and substance use issues on our streets, which puts a strain on our hospitals and our criminal justice system instead of treating the root cause.

Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.

By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and create situations where they are more likely to commit crimes in the future.

Many doctors are stuck in the idea that addiction is a choice, and they don't treat that.

Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness: with skill, with compassion and with urgency.